Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton

Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton PC (c. July 1605 – 4 July 1670) was a distant relation of the Elizabethan politician, Sir Christopher Hatton and a prominent Royalist during the reign of King Charles I of England. He was the son of Sir Christopher Hatton and Alice Fanshawe, daughter of Thomas Fanshawe.

Hatton entered Parliament as MP for Peterborough in 1624, representing that city in the parliaments of 1624-5 and 1625, even though too young to legally sit, and Clitheroe in that of 1626. On reaching the age of 21 in 1626, he was created a Knight of the Bath, as had been his father before him. He was elected a member of the Long Parliament in 1640 for both Higham Ferrers and Castle Rising, choosing to sit for the former where he was High Steward; he was one of the few candidates supported by Queen Henrietta Maria to secure election.

During the Civil War, Hatton was a partisan of Charles I. In 1643 he was created Baron Hatton of Kirby; and, acting as comptroller of the royal household, he represented the king during the negotiations at Uxbridge in 1645. Later he lived for some years in France, and after the Restoration was made a privy counsellor and governor of Guernsey. He died at Kirby on 4 July 1670, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. By his wife Elizabeth (d. 1672), daughter of Sir Charles Montagu of Boughton, he had two sons and three daughters.

References

• D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
• Concise Dictionary of National Biography (1930)

Parliament of England
Preceded by Sir Francis Fane Lawrence Whitacre	Member for Peterborough 1624–1625 With: Lawrence Whitacre	Succeeded by Mildmay Fane, Lord Burghersh Lawrence Whitacre
Preceded by	Member for Clitheroe 1626	Succeeded by
Preceded by	Member for Higham Ferrers 1640–1643	Succeeded by Edward Harby
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Lord Spencer	Custos Rotulorum of Northamptonshire 1636–1646	Succeeded by Interregnum
Peerage of England
Preceded by New Creation	Baron Hatton 1643–1670	Succeeded by Christopher Hatton